12-letter words containing d, y, n, a
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diathermancy — the property of transmitting infrared radiation
- diatonically — In a diatonic manner.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diethylamine — (organic compound) The secondary amine (CH3CH2)2NH.
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- disloyalness — The state or quality of being disloyal.
- dismayedness — the condition of being dismayed
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- dodecagynian — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
- dominion day — Canada Day
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dry gangrene — death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- drying agent — A drying agent is used in an absorption column (= a tall vessel) to remove water from fractions.
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- dynamic dbms — dynamic database management system
- dynamic html — (language, web) (DHTML) The addition of JavaScript to HTML to allow web pages to change and interact with the user without having to communicate with the server. JavaScript allows the behaviour of the page to be controlled by code that is downloaded with the HTML. It does this by manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM). The term DHTML is often also taken to include the use of "style" information to give finer control of HTML layout. The style information can be supplied as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or as "style" attributes (which can be manipulated by JavaScript). Layers are often also used with DHTML. Both the JavaScript and style data can be included in the HTML file or in a separate file referred to from the HTML. Some web browsers allow other languages (e.g. VBScript or Perl) to be used instead of JavaScript but this is less common. DHTML can be viewed in Internet Explorer 4+, Firefox and Netscape Communicator 4+ but, as usual, Microsoft disagree on how DHTML should be implemented. The Document Object Model Group of the World Wide Web Consortium is developing standards for DHTML.
- dynamic link — (compiler) A pointer from an activation record to the activation record for the scope from which the current scope was called at run time. This is used in a statically scoped language to restore the environment pointer on exit from a scope. To access a non-local variable in a dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed until a binding for the given variable name is found.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dynastically — In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
- dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
- enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- evenhandedly — In an evenhanded manner.
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- evidentially — In an evidential way; according to evidence.
- extrordinary — Misspelling of extraordinary.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.